Growing Pains/Happy Halloween (2)

Happy Halloween (2)
Season 6, Episode 8
Airdate	October 31, 1990
Written by	Jay Abramowitz and Nick LeRose and Dan Guntzelman
Directed by	John Tracy
← 6x07 Happy Halloween (1)	6x09 → Let's Go Europe (1)
Growing Pains — Season Six

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Happy Halloween (2) is the eighth episode of the sixth season of Growing Pains, and the one hundred twenty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Alan Thicke (Jason Seaver), Joanna Kerns (Maggie Seaver), Kirk Cameron (Mike Seaver), Tracey Gold (Carol Seaver), Jeremy Miller (Ben Seaver), Ashley Johnson (Chrissy Seaver)

Guest Starring: Jamie Luner (Kara Daye)

Co-Starring: Susan Griffiths (Marilyn Monroe), Leslie Morris (Babe Ruth), Van Epperson (Truman Capote), Stuart Nisbet (George Washington), Jan Rabson (Rod Serling), Charles L. Brame (Abe Lincoln), Bob Tremaine (Colonel Sanders), Jerome Patrick Hoban (Ed Sullivan), Zachary Prather (Jimi Hendrix), Maxine Elliott (Elderly Woman), Daryl Wagner (Liberace), Jeffrey Briar (Stan Laurel), Bevis Faversham (Oliver Hardy), Timothy Scott Bennett (Fool)

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The Ed Sullivan Show -- A caracature of TV host Ed Sullivan is emceeing a talent show at a roadside bar that Mike and Kara stop at. Guests who all appear are deceased celebrities or famous people, and include:
  • Truman Capote -- One of the guests appears as the short story/novelist, famous for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1958) "In Cold Blood" (1966).
  • Jimi Hendrix -- A young man performs, dressed as the legendary rock guitarist of the 1960s.
  • Laurel and Hardy -- Two men, dressed as Stan Laurel and Oliver Harvey, perform a comedy routine.
  • Liberace -- A party guest dresses as the legendary and flamboyant pianist.
  • Abraham Lincoln -- The 16th president of the United States, one of the guests dons the stovepipe hat and beard.
  • Marilyn Monroe -- A young woman, dressed as the legendary actress, performs a song.
  • Babe Ruth -- A young man is dressed as the legendary New York Yankees baseball legend.
  • Colonel Harland Sanders -- A bearded Southern man in a white suit is dressed to emulate the founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise.
  • Rod Serling -- Another guest dresses as the host of the thriller/sci-fi anthology series The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery.
  • George Washington -- A man dresses as the first president of the United States.
• "Laurie (Strange Things Happen)" -- The main plot of the second half of "Happy Halloween" is inspired by the 1965 Dickey Lee pop hit, where a young man meets a pretty teen-aged girl that turns out to be her ghost, the girl having died several years earlier. Major plot elements here include Mike giving Kara (the ghost) his sweater, and Mike later finding the sweater on Kara's grave.